{"id":555909,"date":"2026-04-19T09:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555909\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:57:40","slug":"kraken-the-ice-seattle-ends-disappointing-season-with-a-thud-what-now-emerald-city-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555909\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken the Ice: Seattle Ends Disappointing Season With a Thud, What Now? \u2014 Emerald City Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After being eliminated from the playoffs with a week to play, the Kraken closed out their season without much of a whimper with losses to the Golden Knights and Avalanche, capping off a disastrous post-Olympics finish. Emerald City Spectrum writer Nick Lee reads Seattle&#8217;s eulogy after an up-and-down season, diving into the obvious low points while also revisiting a few positives that developed in the 2025-26 season, and takes a look at where Seattle must go this offseason to revive a possible contender or completely clean house.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldcityspectrum.com\/?author=67bd1d9b0602c9449f2678d1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-avatar-image\" data-controller=\"AuthorProfileImageLoader\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thirdPartyMemberAvatar-67bd1d9b0602c9449f2678d1-9bf72ae6-62da-427f-ad96-e972f94123a4\" data-image=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thirdPartyMemberAvatar-67bd1d9b0602c9449f2678d1-9bf72ae6-62da-427f-ad96-e972f94123a4\" data-load=\"false\" alt=\"\" elementtiming=\"nbf-author-avatar\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  Nick Lee<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being eliminated from the playoffs with a week to play, the Kraken closed out their season without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-555909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-kraken","13":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116430782821023919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}